Liane Moriarty Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Liane Moriarty
Liane Moriarty Famous Quotes & Sayings
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She felt such an intense sensation of happiness it frightened her, because surely there was a price to pay for this sort of bliss.
Why hadn't that been part of his stupid lifelong redemption program: Do what my wife asks immediately so she doesn't feel like a nag.
Anyway, men don't rule the world. We have a female prime minister. And you rule your world. You rule the Fitzpatrick household.
It's about making a choice to make your marriage a priority, to, kind of, put that at the top of the page, as your mission statement or something.
It's always the paragraphs I loved most, the ones I tenderly polished and re-read with pride, that my editor will suggest cutting.
Nobody ever told you that being a mother is all about making what seemed like thousands of tiny decisions.
She'd looked at the stubble along his jawline, and the thought had crossed her mind: He looks like Clark Kent, but maybe he's really Superman.
If only she could have e-mailed or texted him, that would have solved everything, but mobile phones and the Internet were still in the future.
Their uptight concerns about what other people thought seemed like such a waste. Why had they been so careful and contained with their love?
My real thinking and planning gets done when I'm doing something else like driving or walking or taking the shower.
They tended to give a little start when she spoke, as if the potted plant had tried to join in the conversation.
You can think something is one way all your life, and it turns out you're wrong, it can be something else entirely.
Seven minutes. Her mistake could be measured in minutes. Marla was the only person who knew. Ed never knew.
The other mothers, the teachers, the people. I didn't realize that having a child was so social. You're always talking to people.
I have a six-year-old son and a four-year-old daughter, so I write when they are at school and pre-school, or when I have a babysitter.
She felt as though she'd been unforgivably negligent - careless! sloppy! - with the most precious, wonderful gift she'd ever received.
there was the pure, primal pain of grief, and other times there was anger, the frantic desire to claw and hit and kill, and
I understand now that desperate, clumsy desire to make people feel better - even when you know perfectly well that nothing will.
It was always like that. They never said sorry. They just threw down their still-loaded weapons, ready for next time.
If parents had children who were good sleepers, they assumed this was due to their good parenting, not good luck.
Nope, she didn't. So we grow up and leave home, and I hear from my mum that Madeline has married some wanker, said Ed.
You think terrible things happened on the battlefields, but terrible things happened in ordinary suburban homes.
I'd be at work where poeple respected my opinions, said Nick. And then, I'd come home and it was like I was the village idiot.
Cecilia sipped her tea and imagined herself going back through time and putting that Khrushchev in his place.
My husband does say it is Australia's job and my family's job to keep me grounded. They do a very good job!
Oh, Lord. Tess could feel her entire personality being drained from her body. Those talkative, energetic people always left her feeling that way.
I had bad endometriosis when I was younger, and a doctor told me I'd have a lot of trouble getting pregnant.
Miss Barnes clearly didn't know what in the world to do. She was twenty-four years old, for heaven's sake.
Sometimes they purposely asked people over just to give themselves the incentive to clean up in a frantic rush before they arrived.
He worked on it for over fifteen years before he died in his fifties of complications caused by pneumonia.
But women like Tess didn't seem to have that need to share the ordinary facts of their lives, and that made Cecilia desperate to know them.
She has that euphoric feeling you get at the airport after you've checked in your luggage. Nothing can stop your journey.
Of course they danced together; how could Callum resist dancing with a real live woman instead of a cardboard cut-out?
The suffragettes didn't starve themselves for the vote, so that you girls could starve yourselves for a man.
Children did this. They sensed when there was something controversial or sensitive and they pushed and pushed like tiny prosecutors.
Her goodness had limits. She could have easily gone her whole life without knowing those limits, but now she knew exactly where they lay.
night's sleep!' she said. 'Every day I think, gosh you look a bit tired today, and it's just recently occurred to me that it's not that I'm tired,
I don't know how she feels about me, but I sort of like her. I mean, I'm sickened by her existence obviously, but I find her strangely compelling.
She wondered if she was going mad. It felt like a decision she could make. One small step over an invisible line and she could choose lunacy.
Veronika had accused her father of being a misogynist and Thomas had told Veronika to stop acting like a pseudo lesbian intellectual.
Your child was a little stranger, constantly changing, disappearing and reintroducing himself to you.
It's like telling a blind person, "Oh, sure, you get to see mountains and sunsets, but there are also rubbish dumps and pollution!
Parents take far too much notice of their children these days. Bring back the good old days of benign indifference, I reckon.